Graham Coxon

Love Travels At Illegal Speeds Graham Coxon

Former Blur guitarist sixth studio album. Love Travels At Illegal Speeds is a love album that doesn't very often sound like a love album. With its riotous, rifftastic blast and particularly soft centre; it's an arrestingly impressive sixth solo album from a man who just can't seem to get his head around love. He insists the songs aren't entirely biographical, but there's little doubting that they offer a window into his heart and soul. Like every solo album he's made, Love Travels... shows a definite advance from the last one. The scratchy, half-finished ideas of the early solo albums he made while still in Blur are as much a thing of the past as his association with the band. Instead, his sixth album is also his most fully realized. As well as Coxon's peerlessly inventive guitar playing, these are songs bolstered by flugel horns and flutes, harmonicas and Hammond organs. Includes a 12 page booklet. EMI. 2006.